When Lady Gaga shut down body shamers, she was taking a stand for someone very special to her

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When Lady Gaga responded to people body shaming her after her Super Bowl halftime performance, she did it for her fans. On Thursday, the singer chatted with Ryan Seacrest about why she couldn’t let the negative comments go without a reaction.

“I couldn’t ignore that I saw my fans talking about that and that it upset them,” she said on Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio talk show. “I think other people maybe that are just like normal girls and guys who either have their own body image issues or just didn’t think it was a nice thing to say [were upset].”

In her response, Gaga told her Instagram followers that she loves her body and that they should love theirs too, saying, “I heard my body is a topic of conversation so I wanted to say, I’m proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too. No matter who you are or what you do. I could give you a million reasons why you don’t need to cater to anyone or anything to succeed. Be you, and be relentlessly you. That’s the stuff of champions. thank you so much everyone for supporting me. I love you guys. Xoxo, gaga.”